Eating Placenta

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I just came across this column of Cecil’s on eating placentas after a Google search, while I was blogging my own experience about eating my son’s placenta. (He’s almost 4 now, but I felt the urge to write about the experience today.) I have no idea how old the column is or how extensively it was commented on in these forums, so hope I’m not rehashing.

Anyway, I thought I had something new to add, namely to confirm from my own experience that yes indeed human placentas are on occasion eaten!

–Ling

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When my ex was pregnant with our second child(mid 1980’s), our Dr asked if we knew why, in the movies, that they always ask someone to boil water when a woman is about to deliver.

Thinking he was serious, we said no.
He said, giggling, “Well, it’s so they can eat the placenta.”

:eek:

After reading the OP’s recipe on Placenta Stir Fry, I now realise he didn’t know how serious he was.